Fox should stop giving Cheney forum

Published 5:17 pm, Monday, December 22, 2014

Why does Fox News continue to bring on former Vice President Dick Cheney to, once again, lie to the American people about his shameful record of deceit of our citizens?

Do I have concerns regarding the impact of releasing the information in the torture report to the world? Yes, I do. But, in light of the damage that Mr. Cheney has done to our nation by championing the use of torture, it had to be done. Americans deserve truth, not fiction. Our nation cannot expect to claim the moral high ground when a vice president champions immoral acts.

We should remember Mr. Cheney is the answer to all these questions: Who was brought on the former President George W. Bush ticket because of his "vast" international and defense credentials? Who was in the White House on 9/11? Who was in charge of our national defense on that day? Who helped mold the lies that former Secretary of State Colin Powell brought to the United Nations to bolster the neoconservative agenda to attack Iraq?

The Iraq War has cost American taxpayers trillions of dollars and countless lives of our troops, and it was a war based on lies.

Let's not forget it also was this Bush/Cheney administration that hired Christopher Cox at the Securities and Exchange Commission, which did nothing while the big banks developed financial weapons of mass destruction — derivatives, credit default swaps, etc. — that brought our nation to the brink of another great depression, wiping out trillions in assets of American taxpayers in 2008-09. That recession is one that many, many Americans are still digging out of.

Mr. Cheney knows that he can continue to lie to our citizens because he will always be welcomed on Fox News. And Fox may well be able to provide Mr. Cheney a forum by which he can fool their viewers while he places blame anywhere but on himself. But, as the saying goes, you can only fool some of the people ... the man should be in prison for his shameless deceit of the American people, not on network television.